Taking a Micro-Services Approach to FME Server Workspace Design

Central San has been using FME Server to publish geo-enriched asset and parcel data for Esri and Geocortex web maps and Cityworks applications for several years. Recently, we overhauled our publishing processes to simplify workflows and take advantage of FME Server Automations. Instead of a few “monolithic” workspaces that run every weeknight, we have several smaller “micro-service” workflows that are chained together in FME Server Automations that run most weeknights. A few additional larger workflows are run in a separate Automations at the end of the week. This has significantly reduced load on the FME Server on most weeknights.